LSST/Vera Rubin telescope - Latest update from Prof. Richard McMahon of the IoA
Fri 24 Jul
|IoA
Located on a mountaintop in Chile, NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture the cosmos in exquisite detail. Using the largest camera ever built, Rubin will repeatedly scan the sky for 10 years and create an ultra-wide, ultra-high-definition time-lapse record of our Universe.
Time & Location
24 Jul 2026, 20:00 – 22:00
IoA, Madingley Rd, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK
About The Event
What is Rubin Observatory?
NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, is a brand new astronomy and astrophysics facility on Cerro Pachón in Chile. It’s named after astronomer Vera Rubin, who provided the first convincing evidence for the existence of dark matter.
Rubin Observatory is the first of its kind: its mirror design, camera sensitivity, telescope speed, and computing infrastructure are each in an entirely new category.
The 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope at Rubin Observatory, equipped with the LSST Camera — the largest digital camera ever built — will take detailed images of the southern hemisphere sky for 10 years, covering the entire sky every few nights and creating an ultra-wide, ultra-high-definition, time-lapse record — the largest astronomical movie of all time. This unique movie will bring the night sky to life, yielding a treasure…